Nevin Shapiro, who unleashed a firestorm last week with his allegations about the University of Miami football program, reportedly talked to Houston Nutt in 2006 about the head coach opening at the university.

Cell phone records obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2007 through the Freedom of Information Act -- and referenced Sunday in a blog post by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel -- show that Shapiro and Nutt spoke several times in December 2006 after Miami fired Larry Coker. Nutt also talked with Miami assistant athletic director Tony Hernandez, according to the phone records.

Nutt, who was the head coach at Arkansas at the time, called Shapiro at 10:17 a.m. on Dec. 7, 2006, and the two spoke for 30 minutes, according to the records. Nutt then spoke with his agent, Jimmy Sexton, before contacting Shapiro again that day.

“Somehow, some way that information ended up in front of me that he would be a viable candidate for the job,” Shapiro told the Democrat-Gazette in its 2007 story. “There was no real meat to it.”

Miami eventually promoted then-defensive coordinator Randy Shannon to head coach for the '07 season. He was fired after the 2010 campaign and replaced by Al Golden.

Nutt left Arkansas after the 2007 season to become the head coach at Ole Miss.